Elysium 1 year ago
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And You, What Mood Are You In?
Like all the pieces of the Oud Mood collection, the packaging and the bottle are lush and very accurate in every detail. In fact, the box is a cylindrical cardboard tube decorated similar to those of fine liqueurs, and a ribbon that keeps it anchored hooks the lid. A coloured ribbon of the same colour as the box blindfolds slave-style the thick glass bottle. Not to mention the heavy metal gold or silver...
Elysium 1 year ago
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Lattafa Perfumes: Myth, Legend, or Reality?
to other Lattafa leather scents I own, Velvet Oud, to name one, Qaa'ed Al Shabaab feels softer, creamier, floral, less harsh and cheeky, with a touch of gentleness and superiority. In the title, I said it's good for the faint of heart. But the more I spray it to capture all the nuances and colours, the more I think it's a complex, robust, strong, virile, leathery cologne that...
Elysium 1 year ago
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Afnan's View Of Islamic Minarets
ingredients will vary and give a distinct bouquet, depending on the mixture and the proportion in which the ingredients are blended. Perfumers highly valued the result for its sweet, woody, aromatic and complex scent. If you missed it, people sometimes refer to Mukhallat as liquid gold. The golden colour of the bottle would fit it flawlessly.Mukhallat Abiyad is an unconventional Arabic fragrance...
Elysium 1 year ago
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Rituals... A Turkish Bath & Hammam in Istanbul
you ever been to a Rituals store? Pity! Yes, because entering one of their shops is like visiting a Turkish Bath & Hammam Spa in Marrakech or Istanbul. The soft lights, the display shelves, the relaxing colours, and the smells transport you to the ancestral rituals of Morocco. And so I let this temptation attract me, and I walked around the shop, browsing products to care for the body...
Elysium 2 years ago
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The Oriental, The Ancient, and The Sacred
Finally, Incense Sunset is a mystical fragrance that brings to mind places of worship and meditation and uses citrus and resinous accords to recreate the slightly smoky atmosphere of churches, mosques, and meditative oases. The entire collection uses sturdy boxes that open like a book, in bright colours, and the bottles are those already used by Jo Malone’s previous creations, this...
TheScentDr 2 years ago
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Fragrance Creation
connection that taste and smell have; after all, smelling is the first taste we get of food. It was just as interesting to learn that fragrance (scent) in natural products like fruits and flowers was in fact an adaptation, or evolution, if you want, that they underwent. Indeed, a better looking (colour) fruit was more likely to be eaten, but fragrance more often than not equally attracted animals that would...
Elysium 3 years ago
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Lemon Almond Cake With Bitter Topping
The climate's delicate, the air most sweet, fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing the common praise it bears. — W. Shakespeare The Winter's Tale. With its appearance of a medieval village, its ancient Greek soul, the colours and scents of the Mediterranean vegetation, Taormina is one of the most beautiful places to visit in the world. And ALV Taormina is sparkling, solar, and reflects...
Elysium 3 years ago
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Are We Talking About The Niche?
3 perfumes to pay homage to the style and elegance of the Grès house under the Les Signes de Grès series. The packaging follows a line in common with all the collection peers, with a bottle with broad shoulders and a narrow bottom, a flat gold T-shaped cap, and a juice and label of different colours. Fruit de la Creativité Initially, the fragrance features a body with a classic presence and something...
ElisaS95 4 years ago
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A look at the past and present
as I don't really have wished for any in 8 years of being into the hobby.I like almonds, vintage perfumes and old things from the 2000s. They bring me to a fictitious (let's call it for what it is...) time back where I would fantasise about a world I didn't live in while listening to music. The colours and imagery that brought me peace, that were an escape route from the pain I had felt, still...
Anessa 7 years ago
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White beach sandals in winter?
her hips with every step. She had loose hair enveloping her upperbody like a curtain and was clad in a tight, light beige knit tunic which rather resembled a homewear. Now, I usually don't really care or watch what other people are wearing or look like, except for people dressed in eye-catching colours or a (yet) unfamiliar style, like those increasing "slip dresses" in broad daylight on the streets,...
DorothyGrace 7 years ago
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Two successful blind buys
of cumin. I asked my son. Cumin. But that was the last I smelt of a powerful cumin note so I guess it must have seaped through the bottle lid and accumulated. The bottle is cute. The base and top (coloured gold) are metal with a soft semi-matte pale gold finish - like 9 ct English gold in colour rather than the rich Indian gold. The liquid is a soft egg yolk yellow/gold (depending on the eggs one buys)....
DorothyGrace 7 years ago
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Aromatics Elixir 2016
detected (Aromatics aficionados will understand).The first most noticeable change to me is the list of colourants. Green 5 (ci 61570), yellow 5 (ci 19140), red 4 (ci 14700), iln41925. The first three are lake dyes. I didn't know that Aromatics Elixir had dye in it; I rather naively thought the colour came from essential oils.I don't know what iln41925 is but wonder if it is one of the rose ionones. If so then...